Word: fated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fate of the Minutemen cannot be explained away as easily as some owners might wish. It is not just another hard luck expansion team. The Minutemen's problems "were not the city of Boston" nor "the game of soccer," as Vogelsinger said when he resigned. Boston is a top breeding ground for United States soccer, with youth soccer leagues outdrawing little league baseball in many towns...
Radical highs and lows interspersed with bizarre twists of fate have characterized Horowitz's life, and have undoubtedly been responsible, at least in part, for his quirkiness and instability. Twice at the heights of popularity he has left the concert stage for more than ten years, with rumored nervous breakdowns. He has said that he is frightened by people en masse, and by concert audiences...
...news was welcomed by all. But at this point, nobody can tell whether, before that 1978 date, another twist of fate will cause him to withdraw back into his living room to declare an end to his performing career altogether. The aura of mystery that surrounds Vladimir Horowitz persists...
...WEST. In his weakest region, Carter's campaign is beginning to get off the ground; but politicians believe he suffered by failing to persuade popular Governor Jerry Brown to take charge of his campaign in California much as John Connally has been entrusted with Ford's fate in Texas. Brown was at Carter's side last week in California and is campaigning strenuously for him both in the state and elsewhere. The race in California is now too close to call...
...historic event that sealed the fate of white Rhodesia and changed the life of every white man in Africa south of the Zambezi River was the Portuguese revolution in April 1974. The military coup against the Caetano government in Lisbon led the following year to the granting of independence to Mozambique and Angola ? something the old regime vowed would never happen. Before 1975, Mozambique and Angola were Portuguese colonies that served as bulwarks against the southward march of African nationalism; after 1975, their Marxist governments became directly involved in the black struggle to overthrow the remaining white minority regimes...